EditorialKehinde Wiley at “An Archaeology of Silence” at the de Young Museum with his monumental 2022 painting, “Femme piquée par un serpent (Mamadou Gueye)," in San Francisco, Calif., on March 14, 2023. (Ian C. Bates/The New York Times)
EditorialKehinde Wiley at “An Archaeology of Silence” at the de Young Museum with his monumental 2022 painting, “Femme piquée par un serpent (Mamadou Gueye)," in San Francisco, Calif., on March 14, 2023. (Ian C. Bates/The New York Times)
EditorialKehinde Wiley at “An Archaeology of Silence” at the de Young Museum with his monumental 2022 painting, “Femme piquée par un serpent (Mamadou Gueye)," in San Francisco, Calif., on March 14, 2023. (Ian C. Bates/The New York Times)
EditorialKehinde Wiley at “An Archaeology of Silence” at the de Young Museum with his monumental 2022 painting, “Femme piquée par un serpent (Mamadou Gueye)," in San Francisco, Calif., on March 14, 2023. (Ian C. Bates/The New York Times)
EditorialKehinde Wiley at “An Archaeology of Silence” at the de Young Museum with his monumental 2022 painting, “Femme piquée par un serpent (Mamadou Gueye)," in San Francisco, Calif., on March 14, 2023. (Ian C. Bates/The New York Times)
EditorialAbbie Harrison, a project archaeologist, examines plant materials at Alpine Archaeological Consultants? lab in Montrose, Colo. on Jan. 4, 2023. (Kristin Braga Wright/The New York Times)
EditorialA nude of the writer Victor Hugo by Auguste Rodin, at the Besan?on Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology in Besan?on, France on Dec. 7, 2022. (Andrea Mantovani/The New York Times)
EditorialArgaric Culture. Early Bronze Age. It was developed in Southeastern Spain, between c. 2200 BC-1500 BC. Charred wheat. From Levante area, Spain. Archaeology Museum of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.